https://indianpedia.org/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Krishna_Prasad_DarKrishna Prasad Dar - Revision history2026-07-30T20:45:15ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.45.4https://indianpedia.org/index.php?title=Krishna_Prasad_Dar&diff=407495&oldid=prevCleanupBot II at 21:22, 13 August 20232023-08-13T21:22:08Z<p></p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2018}}<br />
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2018}}<br />
{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Krishna Prasad Dar<br />
| image = <br />
| imagesize = <br />
| caption = <br />
| birth_date = 30 January 1893<br />
| birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], India<br />
| death_date = 1977<br />
| death_place = India<br />
| restingplace = <br />
| restingplacecoordinates = <br />
| othername = <br />
| occupation = Printer, writer<br />
| yearsactive = <br />
| known for = <br />
| spouse = Daya Shuri<br />
| domesticpartner = <br />
| children = [[Sudhir Dar]] Asoka Dar<br />
| parents = Har Prasad Dar<br>Pranpati<br />
| website = <br />
| awards = [[Padma Shri]]<br />
<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Krishna Prasad Dar''' was an Indian [[Printer (publishing)|printer]], [[publisher]] and writer, known for his book, ''Kashmiri Cooking'', a book detailing [[Kashmiri cuisine]].<ref name="Kashmiri Cooking">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezJKAAAACAAJ&q=isbn:0140255656 | title=Kashmiri Cooking | publisher=Penguin Books | author=Krishna Prasad Dar (Author), Sudhir Dar (Illustrator) | year=2000 | pages=216 | isbn=978-0140255652}}</ref> Born in [[Kolkata]], in the Indian state of [[West Bengal]] on 30 January 1893 to Har Prasad Dar and Pranpati as one of their five children, he completed his college studies at the [[St. Xavier's College, Calcutta]].<ref name="Krishna Prasad Dar">{{cite web | url=http://www.geni.com/people/Krishna-Prasad-Dar/6000000011335278538 | title=Krishna Prasad Dar | publisher=Geni | date=2015 | accessdate=16 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="Prints Asia">{{cite web | url=http://www.printsasia.in/book/kashmiri-cooking-krishna-prasad-dar-sudhir-dar-0140255656-9780140255652 | title=Prints Asia | publisher=Prints Asia | date=2015 | accessdate=17 June 2015}}</ref> Later, he set up a printing press, Allahabad Law Journal Press, which grew to become one of the leading printers and publishers of the region.<ref name="Krishna Prasad Dar" /> It was at this press that some of the books of [[Jawaharlal Nehru]] such as [[Letters from a Father to His Daughter]]<ref name="Letters from a father to his daughter">{{cite book | url=http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=8473458604&searchurl=tn%3Dletters+from+a+father+to+his+daughter%26an%3Djawaharlal+nehru | title=Letters from a father to his daughter | publisher=Allahabad Law Journal Press | author=Nehru, Jawaharlal | year=1947}}</ref> and [[Glimpses of World History]] were published.<ref name="Krishna Prasad Dar" /><ref name="The Sociology of Post-Colonial Societies">{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/sociologyofpostc0000gold | url-access=registration | page=[https://archive.org/details/sociologyofpostc0000gold/page/251 251] | quote=Glimpses of World History Allahabad Law Journal Press. | title=The Sociology of Post-Colonial Societies | publisher=Cambridge University Press | date=1996 | accessdate=17 June 2015 | author=J. E. Goldthorpe}}</ref><br />
<br />
Dar is the author of ''Kashmiri Cooking'', a book on Kashmiri cuisine, which was later published by [[Penguin India |Penguin India Books]] with illustrations by his son, [[Sudhir Dar]], noted Indian cartoonist.<ref name="Kashmiri Cooking" /> Before bringing out ''Kashmiri Cooking'', he published two books, ''Copy and Proof'',<ref name="Copy & Proof">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tphskgEACAAJ&q=inauthor:%22Krishna+Prasad+Dar%22 | title=Copy & Proof | publisher=Allahabad Law Journal Press | author=Krishna Prasad Dar | year=1938 | pages=155}}</ref> and ''Adhunik Chapayi'' (Modern Printing), both considered by many as manuals on printing and publishing.<ref name="Prints Asia" /> The [[Government of India]] awarded him the fourth highest Indian civilian award of [[Padma Shri]] in 1975.<ref name="Padma Shri">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Shri |publisher=Padma Shri |date=2015 |accessdate=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archivedate=15 November 2014 }}</ref><br />
<br />
Krishna Prasad Dar was married to Daya Shuri, and they had four children.<ref name="Krishna Prasad Dar" /> He died in 1977 at the age of 83.<ref name="Krishna Prasad Dar" /> One of his sons, [[Sudhir Dar]], was a known cartoonist, and died in 2019.<ref name="Sudhir Dar - Master of Humour">{{cite web | url=http://www.orissabarta.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=16566:sudhir-dar-master-of-humour&catid=35:top-stories | title=Sudhir Dar - Master of Humour | publisher=Orissa Barta | date=25 July 2014 | accessdate=17 June 2015}}</ref><br />
<br />
==See also==<br />
{{Div col}}<br />
* [[Sudhir Dar]]<br />
{{div col end}}<br />
<br />
<br />
==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
<br />
{{Padma Shri Award Recipients in Civil Service}}<br />
{{Authority control}}<br />
<br />
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dar, Krishna Prasad}}<br />
[[Category:Recipients of the Padma Shri in civil service]]<br />
[[Category:1893 births]]<br />
[[Category:1977 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Writers from Kolkata]]<br />
[[Category:Indian printers]]<br />
[[Category:Indian publishers (people)]]<br />
[[Category:Kashmiri people]]<br />
[[Category:St. Xavier's College, Kolkata alumni]]<br />
<br />
<br />
{{India-bio-stub}}</div>CleanupBot II